BUG/MEDIUM: compression: Rewrite strong ETags
RFC 7232 section 2.3.3 states:
> Note: Content codings are a property of the representation data,
> so a strong entity-tag for a content-encoded representation has to
> be distinct from the entity tag of an unencoded representation to
> prevent potential conflicts during cache updates and range
> requests. In contrast, transfer codings (Section 4 of [RFC7230])
> apply only during message transfer and do not result in distinct
> entity-tags.
Thus a strong ETag must be changed when compressing. Usually this is done
by converting it into a weak ETag, which represents a semantically, but not
byte-by-byte identical response. A conversion to a weak ETag still allows
If-None-Match to work.
This should be backported to 1.9 and might be backported to every supported
branch with compression.
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